Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
81 High Street
Cowbridge with Llanblethian, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 3 February 1981
- Locality
- Cowbridge
- Community
- Cowbridge with Llanblethian
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.46266, -3.45094
- Cadw reference
- 13212
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Opposite Old Hall.
History
Early to mid C19.
Exterior
Three storeys. Three bay elevation with pebbledash cladding and slate gabled roof with red brick stack to right hand. Sash windows. On ground floor central pedimented doorcase with plain fanlight and six-panelled door; to each side, a storeyed canted three-light bay window rising to first floor; central first single-light sash window with marginal glazing bars. Sash windows four panes wide, left hand one with horns, on second floor.
Interior
Inside, central ground floor passage walls have been removed but left hand ground floor "room" retains early C19 fireplace with reeded architrave, angle blocks with flanking cupboards with three-panelled doors; right hand "room" with C19 fireplace; rear contemporary staircase with straight balusters and hardwood rail; four panelled doors on first floor; small bedroom grate on second floor.
Reason for designation
Early to mid C19 building retaining its overall character. Group value with Woodstock House.
Nearby in the register
- Woodstock HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Llwyn CelynDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Old HallDomesticunder 1 mi
- NW Boundary Wall To No 83 High StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.